Metal tie and nut-lock



(No M00101.)-

J. P. WARNER. METAL TIE AND NUT LOCK.

No. 508,664. Patented Nov. 14,1893.

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'NITED STATES JASPER P. WARNER, OF DECATUR, MICHIGAN.

METAL TIE. AND NUT-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,664, datecl November 14, 1893.

Application filed December 27, 1892- Serial No. 456,454. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JASPER P. WARNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Decatur, county of Van Buren, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Metal Tie and Nut-Lock, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of this invention is to construct a metal tie, in connection with binding plates for securing the rails to said tie, which binding plates serve as nut locks, by their tendency to assume their normal shape after being bound.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is abroken plan view; Fig. 2 a longitudinal section near the center of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 an end elevation, lookingfrom a point at the left of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4: is the same as Fig. 2, illustrating the operation.

The ties, A, consist of channeled metal, so placed that the channels open upward. The ties may be provided with one or more channels, two being here shown,and upon the upper free edges of the Walls of 'the channels the rails, B, are mounted, and of course transversely thereto. Upon each side of the rail, B, and bearing upon the lower flange of said rail, is a binding plate, 0, said plate being made of spring metal, of curved form in end View prior to being bound by the binding bolts, D. These plates are provided with notches, e, at their outer edge, which notches loosely fit over the upper free edges of the channeled tie, A.

The bolts, D', are passed through holes in one of the walls of the channeled tie,.prefer ably in opposite directions to each other (two bolts being employed), the lower ends of said bolts being right-angled through the holes in said wall and headed so as not to draw out of said holes in said wall; and from thence said bolts extend obliquely upward and pass through holes in the binding plates 0, the upper ends of said bolts being provided with binding nuts, 1;.

In the operation of binding the rails to the ties, Fig. 2 illustrates the appearance of the binding plates before the nuts, 1;, are screwed down, and Fig. 4 shows the fiat appearance of the binding plates after the nuts 22 have been screwed down; said plate being enabled to assume this form by slipping laterally on the edges of the channeled tie and on the upper face of the lower flange of the rail.

It will be readily seen that the tendency of the binding plates to assume their normal shape, as in Fig. 2, owing to their elasticity, will successfullyprevent any jar from turning the nuts, hence forming a successful nutlock.

More than two bolts, D, may'be employed if deemed necessary, and as stated, the ties may have as many channels as deemed advisable; it being understood, of course, that if another set of bolts were used for binding each side of the binding plates, the other bolts would be passed into holes in the other walls of the channeled tie, the same as though they were passed through the central wall, as here shown.

By making the ties channeled they represent a larger area, with less weight and at less expense, and the attachment of thebolts thereto is made more convenient, with less expense in producing the bolts than would be the case if the channels in the tie were filled up. In attaching said binding bolts to the rails and tie, the notches, e, referred to, prevent endwise displacement of the binding plates.

-Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1.'The combination of suitable ties, rails mounted thereon, spring metal bindingplates, bowed upward when viewed in cross section, prior to being bound, and adapted to straighten after being bound, and bindingbolts and nuts, whereby the tendency of the plates to assume their normal shape locks the nuts; substantially. as set forth.

2. The combination of channeled metal ties, rails mounted upon said ties, elastic metal binding plates, provided with notches in their of the channeled ties, and binding bolts and nuts; substantially as set forth. I

3. The combination of channeled metal ties, rails mounted thereon, elastic metal binding plates, having a spring resistance against outeredges fitting over the upper free edges 5 the binding pressure of the binding nuts, and In testimony to the iforegoing .I have hereheaded binding bolts right-angled Through unto snbscribedmyname in thepresence of one of the walls of the channeled tie and two witnesses.

from thence extending upward on opposite JASPER P; WARNER. 5 sides of said wall, passing through the bind- Witnesses:

ing plates, and binding nuts on said bolts; FRANK POTTS,

substantially as set forth. LINCOLN. 

